BooksForTopics & Support Your School Launch Fundraising Initiative
Fundraising Partnership Launched
BooksForTopics has partnered with Support Your School to help schools fund book packs to boost reading for pleasure.
Our Year Group Recommended Reading lists are among the most popular booklists on our website, as they provide reading for pleasure recommendations for each primary school year group.
Schools can already purchase full sets of the books via Peters – a popular choice to supply classroom libraries and book corners with age-appropriate selections of top-quality books to read for pleasure.
We recognise that not all schools are in a position to purchase new books that will make a difference to children’s reading for pleasure, and that’s why we’re offering a new way for schools to raise funds for your book packs.
For the first time, we have partnered with Support Your School to help schools fundraise for full year group sets to support reading for pleasure in each year group.
Simply sign up, share your page, reach the fundraising target and receive your books!
An Easy Way for Schools to Raise Funds for Books
Support Your School is a free fundraising platform for schools. Registered schools can raise money through donations from the local community to support their literacy and reading for pleasure mission.
There is no cost to schools, and participating schools can spend 100% of the funds raised on books to boost children’s reading for pleasure. After registering for an account, schools can start fundraising by setting up a new campaign page. Each school will have its own fundraising webpage to share, where parents, community members and local businesses can donate online.
Once a school has hit the fundraising target, they can receive recommended read packs to be sent directly to the school for the pupils to enjoy.
Recommended Read Packs to Boost Reading for Pleasure
Through the Support Your School initiative, participating schools can raise funds to purchase the official BooksForTopics Year Group Recommended Reads packs of 50 titles picked by BooksForTopics’ panel of children’s book experts, teachers and librarians. With the recommended read bookpacks, you can boost reading for pleasure in your school by making available high-quality and appealing texts specially chosen for each primary year group – ideal for classroom book corners and libraries.
Each Recommended Read selection contains a variety of reading for pleasure texts selected for the age and stage of the relevant year group. From laugh-out-loud picture books to page-turning chapter books, non-fiction and graphic novels, there’s something every pupil can enjoy. The packs have been chosen by the experts at BooksForTopics and will be delivered to schools by Peters.
Can you imagine the excitement on pupils’ faces when they get to explore the brand-new books from the 50 Recommended Reads selections for their year group? Schools can choose from packs for Preschool, Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, or Year 6 – or aim high and raise funds for all eight packs.
Tapping into Community Spirit
Once participating schools have created their online campaign page, they can share it with your community. The link to each school’s online fundraising page can be shared via school websites, newsletters and social media.
Schools often find that local businesses are more than happy to donate to fundraising campaigns – if they don’t ask, they’ll never know.
We’ve also provided some handy letter templates for schools to send to parents and local businesses, explaining the benefits of the reading-for-pleasure resources they will be raising money to receive.
How to Get Involved
Schools can run their campaign in three easy steps:
1. Create a Fundraising Page –
Register with Support Your School and set up your school’s fundraising page. Decide which BooksForTopics year group book packs you wish to raise funds for, aiming for a £400 target per year group set. You’ll get a dedicated URL where people can donate directly online and see your campaign’s real-time progress.
2. Share the Fundraising Campaign –
Share your campaign with parents and local businesses. Use our handy letter templates below to spread the word and explain the benefits of receiving 50 high-quality reading books for your year groups. Remember to make the most of your school’s website and social media to spread the word, and include the link to your school’s fundraising page to make it super easy for your community to donate online.
3. Reach Your Target and Enjoy Your Bookpacks –
Once you hit your campaign target, you can receive those much-needed reading for pleasure resources for your school. The books have been selected by the experts at BooksForTopics and will be supplied to your school by Peters, the UK’s leading specialist children’s book supplier to schools and academies.
It’s a win-win! The Support Your School platform is free to use and unlike other fundraising platforms, it never takes a cut of the funds you’ve raised. Your school gets 100% of the benefits in quality books to boost reading for pleasure – and it doesn’t cost your school a penny.
Here at BooksForTopics, we are delighted to launch this fundraising initiative with Support Your School. Many schools know the benefits of providing high quality book selections for their pupils but are unable to find funds to make it happen. We are excited to offer schools the opportunity to provide the Recommended Read book packs for their pupils through the Support Your School fundraising initiative and we are looking forward to seeing the positive impact it will have on boosting reading for pleasure in participating schools.
Simply sign up, share your page, reach the fundraising target and receive your books!
Read more about our books for schools fundraising initiative.
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Where next?
> Visit our Reading for Pleasure Hub.
> Browse our Topic Booklists.
> See our Books of the Month.
> View our Year Group booklists
